[Rothschild, Nathaniel Meyer de]

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Skizzen aus dem Süden. Vienna, 1894-1895

first edition, limited edition, number 52 of 160 copies, 2 volumes, folio (470 x 345mm.), half-titles, titles within decorative borders, 2 coloured maps, 74 photographic plates, numerous photographic illustrations in text, original brown calf gilt, uncut, spotted internally, small repair at head of spine vol.1, vol.2 rubbed

Provenance

Lady Paget, presentation inscription

Literature

Blackmer 1449

Catalogue Note

presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lady Paget. Accounts of two yacht cruises, the first volume describing the author's trip in 1893 from Italy to Tunisia, Algeria, Spain and Majorca; the second from Dalmatia to Greece, Turkey and various islands, including Crete, in 1894.